Van Jones: If I Walked Down the Street with an AR-15, It Would Be ‘It Was Nice Knowing Van Jones’

RUSH EXCERPT:

JONES: “Well, listen, I’m glad he’s speaking for himself. I think the reason that you have a lot of shock and anger and frustration from the black community and from progressives is there’s never been an african American kid, you think of 400 years of provocations and bad stuff that’s happened and threats against us. There’s never been an african American kid that’s walked around with an AR-15 and shot three kids and got hailed as a hero. It’s never happened. There’s just from the very beginning there’s a sense that there’s a two-tiered system here where we don’t have the right to self-defense in the same way. I don’t have a Second Amendment right in the same way. If Van Jones walked down the street with an AR-15, you know what you’d say about me? It sure was nice knowing Van Jones because I’m not going to have a chance to explain myself. You’re just dealing with the pain of people. Listen, he got a fair trial. Nobody’s arguing anything negative about the jury. Biden himself said respect the verdict. People respect the verdict, but there’s still pain here about the sense of difference. We don’t have the right to self-defense and Second Amendment in the same way others do. And you do have this vigilante edge that is grabbing onto this, the vigilante edge thinks a certain group of people, almost always white men can get guns themselves and impose the law whenever they want to. That is a negative.”